New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Rita Mae Brown. “Rich with all the color of history and characters that burst off the page into our lives, High Hearts reveal one of our most outrageous and delightful storytellers weaving her most ambitious and entertaining novel yet” (front flap). Set in Civil War-era Virginia, Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944) dives into the complexities of 19th..... More

Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More

Lincoln, NE: Federal Writers' Project, 1939. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "The present collection continues the recital of the farmers' grievances against the railroads (signalized by Jay Gould, John Thurston, and Mark Hanna) and the banking and political interests allied with them. Through high freight and interest rates, coupled with ruinously low prices for farm products, monopoly and speculation were dispossessing the farmer and arousing him to a reform campaign that..... More

New York, NY: Flatiron Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by President Joe Biden. "In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the previous forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect and to reflect on what the year had..... More

Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More

London, England: Ambit, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage number of the British literary journal founded in 1959 & edited until 2013 by Dr. Martin Bax, still going strong as of this writing, features "Johnny 23" by William S. Burroughs accompanied with an illustration by Ron Sandford (inner back cover, unpaginated). Hypnotic, repetitive & riveting, this piece consists of eight titled sections beginning with the above title, & is..... More

New York, NY: Lisa Drew Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Barbara Bush. “In her memoir, Mrs. Bush for the first time gives readers a very private look at a life lived in the public eye for more than twenty-five years,” (from front flap). Barbara Pierce (1925-2018) met George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) before he shipped out for World War II, and they married upon his return when they were..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. "When a lonely South African sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of his black foreman's young bride, his transgression brings to an end an uneasy feudal peace. His embittered spinster daughter, Magda, dreams of and executes a bloody revenge, then shuts the farm off from the world to play out with the foreman and his wife her sexual..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2016. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Tommy thought that it was strange that so many people would want to move away from their homes and live so close together and in such big houses. He didn't like seeing all the trees being cut down and the top of the mountain being pushed away by all the big machines. He frowned thinking..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”--Ralph Ellison, “The Invisible Man”. Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) is widely considered one of the finest writers to ever put a pen to the page. While known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "A Salute to 100,000 Stars" by Jean Genet (1910-1986), the great French avant-garde novelist, playwright & countercultural activist who earlier that pivotal year of 1968 had joined William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & Co. to "cover" the notorious Democratic National Convention in..... More